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Shorter reigns are more normal now than in the Hogan days, but that is to be expected with the number of PPVs they do and having three "top-tier" championships. They have to keep the brands exciting. The WWE Extreme events and the following Raw were unusual circumstances involving separate belts. You had a title switch from Edge to Hardy and then Punk cashing in th MitB (which we all knew was probably going to happen post-match some point. I don't really think people will view Jeff Hardy as a two-time champion anymore than they viewed Yokozuna as a two-time champion.
Batista's issue involved an injury. We can only guess what they had planned originally, but this whole thing now has been thrown together to compensate for that.
This year they have been doing lots of title switches. Possibly as a kneejerk reaction to when Cena held the belt for a long time he got booed, so now they're going to the other extreme. I don't know. It's all in striking a balance between switches and reigns.
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